Consider elephant tusks, elk antlers, rhino horns or the curved canines of the extinct sabre-toothed cat… these weapons may be enormous, but, proportionally, it’s the male fiddler crab that owns the mightiest weapon on record. The male’s larger claw can be half of its total body mass – the equivalent of carrying your entire bodyweight […]
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Fiddler Crabs
Cold weather is beginning to settle over New England. New Jersey’s coastal fiddler crabs are about to disappear into the mud until spring. Read about it in my blog Urban Wildlife Guide. And read more about urban wildlife in my book Field Guide to Urban Wildlife.